Xterm

My xterm suddenly went white b-g with black text f-g. Not that I use xterm by choice, but sometimes it pops up (actually it would pop up when using Ranger in LXterminal and initiating a bash process -it doesn't any more since switching to rxvt-unicode).

Set the X colours

You will need to make or edit the file ~/.Xresources,

geany ~/.Xresources  

and add this content

! X colors ------------------------------------------------------------ ! tangoesque scheme *background: #111111 *foreground: #babdb6 ! Black (not tango) + DarkGrey *color0: #000000 *color8: #555753 ! DarkRed + Red *color1: #ff6565 *color9: #ff8d8d ! DarkGreen + Green *color2: #93d44f *color10: #c8e7a8 ! DarkYellow + Yellow *color3: #eab93d *color11: #ffc123 ! DarkBlue + Blue *color4: #204a87 *color12: #3465a4 ! DarkMagenta + Magenta *color5: #ce5c00 *color13: #f57900 !DarkCyan + Cyan (both not tango) *color6: #89b6e2 *color14: #46a4ff ! LightGrey + White *color7: #cccccc *color15: #ffffff ! xterm -------------------------------------------------------------------- xterm*VT100.geometry: 80x25 xterm*faceName: Terminus:style=Regular:size=10 !xterm*font: -*-dina-medium-r-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-* xterm*dynamicColors: true xterm*utf8: 2 xterm*eightBitInput: true xterm*saveLines: 1012 xterm*scrollKey: true xterm*scrollTtyOutput: false xterm*scrollBar: true xterm*rightScrollBar: true xterm*jumpScroll: true xterm*multiScroll: true xterm*toolBar: false ! xpdf --------------------------------------------------------------------- xpdf*enableFreetype: yes xpdf*antialias: yes xpdf*foreground: black xpdf*background: white xpdf*urlCommand: chromium %s  

When you've made any changes you want to make, run this command and then re-start Xterm:

xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources  

and that command can go in the LXDE or OB autostart

Tips: The xterm scroll bar is a little different to usual - left click on it to go down and right click on it to go up.

Xpdf

Here's a nice pdf viewer. If you set the X colors as above, or with what changes you like, Xpdf follows suite (which is a good thing on my dark themed desktop).

Tips:click and drag to select a region, then right-click and zoom to selection.

Some keys from the man page:

n	Move to the next page. Scrolls to the top of the page, unless scroll lock is turned on.
p	Move to the previous page. Scrolls to the top of the page, unless scroll lock is turned on.
<Space> or <PageDown> or <Next>	Scroll down on the current page; if already at bottom, move to next page.
<Backspace> or <Delete> or <PageUp> or <Previous>	Scroll up on the current page; if already at top, move to previous page.
g	Activate the page number text field ("goto page").
0	Set the zoom factor to 125% (ready for increment and decrement).
+	Zoom in (increment the zoom factor by 1).
-	Zoom out (decrement the zoom factor by 1).
z	Set the zoom factor to 'page' (fit page to window).
w	Set the zoom factor to 'width' (fit page width to window).
h	Set the zoom factor to 'height' (fit page height to window).

Printing

The default print command is lpr

It needs to have your printer name to print to, e.g lpr -P HP_P1102

Also you could use lp -d HP_P1102

Note that these are simply bash commands, `lp' (linux print) and `lpr' (linux print request).
The `-P' or `-d' sets the destination printer.. I couldn't find anything about print quality or greyscale! - `man lp' and `man lpr' for man pages.



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